diff --git a/srcpkgs/glibc/files/glibc-patches b/srcpkgs/glibc/files/glibc-patches
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..289e0848b7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/glibc/files/glibc-patches
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+#!/bin/sh
+# glibc-patches VERSION - fetch glibc upstream patches
+version=${1?no version given}
+curl -sL "http://repo.or.cz/glibc.git/patch/glibc-${version}..release/${version}/master" | sed '/^Subject/s,/[0-9]*\],],' | csplit -f glibc-upstream- -b '%02d.patch' - '/^From /' '{*}'
+rm glibc-upstream-00.patch